Redbird Flight Simulations

Redbird Flight Simulations
Founded 2006
Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States
Key people
Jerry Gregoire (Founder & co-chairman)
Todd Willinger (CEO)
Charlie Gregoire (President)[1]
Products Flight simulators

Redbird Flight Simulations, Inc. is an American flight training company.

Founded in 2006, Redbird Flight started with a flight simulator built around a scrapped airplane fuselage. Specifically, a Cessna 177 Cardinal, from which the name redbird originates.[2]

The Redbird FMX is the largest selling simulator in history, with more than 320 units delivered worldwide as of 2012.[3]

Products:[4]

References

  1. AOPA. "Migration Fosters Ideas, Enthusiasm - Redbird Brings Together Training Providers and Makes Magic". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  2. "Redbird Flight Simulations". Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  3. AVweb.com (2012). "Is Redbird Just Plain Better?".
  4. Redbirdflight.com. "Products".
  5. AOPA Pilot: 55. October 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. John Croft (5 August 2013). "Redbird Tests Old Cessna 172s In New Rol Simulator maker refreshes run-out Cessna 172s in effort to provide less expensive pilot training". Aviation Week & Space Technology.
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